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Comment Re:Pacemaker power? (Score 1) 444

by Franso6 (#29694799) Attached to: Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed
I found this (PDF), doesn't mention current use, though.
about their history and actual use (paywall)
not recent...
I suggest you talk to your cardiologist. I can't quickly find any doc on this -- even through googling-- , but it may not be publicly available. From the few docs I can find, I think that they have been deemed safe for medical use but with the improvements of li-ion tech, possibly inductive charging, and other technologies, the use of rtg for pacemaker would look less attractive nowadays, not even considering the risks of accidental release of radioactive material (cremation...)...
So, ask your specialist, or his professors :-)
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Submission + - Serious window damage to Atlantis (nasaspaceflight.com)

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FTL writes: "While in orbit a metal knob floated between a window and the dashboard of Atlantis. Once back on Earth, the shuttle contracted, wedging the knob firmly in place and damaging the window. Initial attempts to free the knob have failed and engineers may need six months to disassemble that section of the orbiter. Given that the shuttle program will probably end next year anyway, such a delay might mean scrapping Atlantis early rather than repairing it. Efforts to remove the knob using less invasive techniques continue."

Comment Re:...ways that Americans might find unfamiliar??? (Score 1) 379

by Franso6 (#27903589) Attached to: In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes
Well, as an european, I can give you a few things that make us better off with Europe, the Euro and all that... We can now live and work in any European country without permit or visa. 30 years ago, trying to do that would have meant months of dealing with the administration of both countries. We can now enjoy the end of speculative games that broke the weakest currencies of smaller countries every 5 years or so in the 80ies. We benefit from Europe-wide quality standards in foods, poollution levels, drugs and so on that are better than about anywhere, and enforced efficiently. We have strong (though not well enforced yet) privacy laws. We have strong anti-monopolistic laws that succeeded at condemning Microsoft for abusive practices, and Intel recently..
User Journal

Journal Journal: A technique to avoid ad-blocking programs in web browsers 1

Journal by xtracto

There you go, a proof of concept method to skip those pesky ad-blocking programs and deliver the ads to the lusers.

I do not know if this is innovative or if it has been already implemented, but I came up with it in the last half hour... if it becomes wildly used, then you saw it first here.

Oh, and the CEO-like mumbo jumbo is courtesy of myself...

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A technique to enforce ad delivery in Web (HTML) based applications.

Feed Sony apologizes over Manchester Cathedral gunfight scene (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Gaming

Sony's PR department has got to be one of the oddest places in the world to work: what other job requires doing damage control over accusations of running a racist marketing campaign and apologizing to the Church of England about violent video games in the same breath? Well, the latter is the current situation report from the whole "Resistance: Fall of Man level being set in Manchester Cathedral" brouhaha. Apparently, the company and the Church are going to sit down and discuss the Church's demands -- how much the company will be donating, and whether there will be a recall of the game -- with the background of Sony sincerely apologizing to anyone that was offended by the depiction. In light of this controversy, the embarrassment from asking a Church "can we make a video game where we shoot aliens inside this Cathedral?" would have been far less damaging than all this negative publicity: next time Sony, just ask permission!

[Via Joystiq]

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Feed Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot (schneier.com)

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The recently publicized terrorist plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, like so many of the terrorist plots over the past few years, is a study in alarmism and incompetence: on the part of the terrorists, our government...

Feed Microsoft and Juniper pledge to simplify NAC (theregister.com)

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Network Access Control made easier

Juniper Networks and Microsoft want to ease the burden on the tired souls tasked with deploying network access control in the enterprise, announcing plans to make Juniper's Unified Access Control (UAC) interoperate with Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP).
Operating Systems

Submission + - Linux Training

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Spritzer writes: I work for a rather large corporation with multiple divisions around the world. Nearly all user computers in the company are Windows systems, and there is no plan to move to Linux in the future. However, a good many of our products are now designed to run on Linux systems for security and stability purposes. Obviously, the design/development teams are knowledgeable in the use of Linux operating systems.Unfortunately my field service teams are not, and their is no in-house training program. This has begun to affect our ability to provide efficient, quality service to customers when in the field.

What training services have you used in the past to get people trained in the basics of using? I'd prefer to stay away from online, self-paced courses and get my people some hands on training with an instructor.

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